Katharina Fuetterer Week 6: Ring

Rhino Ghosted Image

KeyShot Rendered View

KeyShot Rendered View

   
    
     My ring, Nenya, was inspired by the Lord of the Rings and this ring. Nenya is one of the Three Rings, one of the most powerful rings in Tolkien's mythology. It supposedly has a radiance that matches that of the stars. In this way I wanted to create a ring that is formed from a basic shape but has elegant and radiant detail. As I was researching rings I noticed that there is only one basic Lord of the Rings ring that contains the quote, which isn't very extravagant. I created a design that highlights the quote on the ring and has detail through the spirals.

     To create the basic form of the ring I made a cylinder and booleandifferenced a smaller cylinder into the outer edge. To form the spirals I used the spiral command and piped the separate curves. I used a pictureframe to create the quote and used the command flow along surface to wrap the text around the ring. I created a very large fillet for the inner edges so that the ring can be taken off and put on easily. I used smaller fillets for the remaining edges. Then I booleanunioned the spirals to my ring and booleandifferenced the letters into the surface. 

     To create my renderings I used several passes. The main material of the ring is a polished copper but has a black metal material overlay to create stronger lighting effects. I also used an ambient occlusion layer, a specular layer, a mask layer, and a diffuse layer. To create the orthographic projections I used the command make2d in rhino and copied the created image into photoshop.